I just installed "Squeeze Display" and this was one of the most complicated software installation i ever did:
1) I bought a cheap chinese tablet pc (Odys Loox) and installed "Squeeze Display" on it 3) I installed a DOS Emulator (based on DosBox) and on this a copy of my all-time favourite peace of software. It's called El-Fish (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El-Fish) from the russion company Animatek. This is a beautiful old DOS Program which i bought in the early nineties that displays a simulated aquarium. 4) I rooted the tablet and installed an SSH daemon. 5) I removed the case, ripped of a few unnecessary parts like touch screen layer, battery etc. and installed display and board in a picture frame. 5) I am not familiar with Android so i searched for Android commands to control applications (/system/bin/am) and to control the standby mode remotely (/system/bin/input keyevent). Then i wrote a bash script which controls the tablet by sending commands to the SSH shell on the tablet. It uses the Squeezeserver CLI (via the netcat command) to switch to "Squeeze Display" whenever a new album is played and goes back to El-Fish after a time. It also puts the tablet after some time into sleep mode when no album is played because this saves a couple of watts power consumption. Now i am listening to one of my favourite peaces of music, the "Nocturnes" by Frédéric Chopin, played by the wonderful Elisabeth Leonskaja. It's awesome - the quiet music, the virtual fish tank and the app from Erland that displays photographs of the pianist. Thank's a lot to Erland for this and all the other software you wrote for the Squeezebox environment. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ sternenjaeger's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=57562 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94124
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